Associate Product Manager

Summary

Join our Digital & Technology team as an Associate Product Manager and play a key role in shaping the future of our SAP Retail landscape.

As an Associate Product Manager for SAP Finance, you’ll play a pivotal part in keeping our core SAP ECC Finance processes stable, compliant, and future‑ready. You’ll be the go‑to design authority for day‑to‑day functional challenges; investigating issues, shaping smart solutions, and ensuring our Finance landscape is robust, well‑controlled, and aligned with SAP best practice.

Working hand‑in‑hand with Product Managers, engineers, Finance SMEs, and architects, you’ll help us strengthen today’s processes while guiding their evolution as we transition toward S/4HANA. If you're curious, detail‑driven, and excited by the chance to influence how Finance works at scale, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

All the details

Please note this role is a 2-year fixed term contract.

The role can be based at either our Waterside or Salford Quays Support Centre.

What You’ll Be Doing

Your key accountabilities will include:

• ECC Functional Design Ownership: Maintain domain-level process designs and configuration standards.
• Incident Investigation & Resolution: Lead functional analysis and define required fixes.
• Integration & Data Flow Stewardship: Manage posting logic, IDOCs, and reconciliation behaviour.
• Continuous Improvement & Simplification: Identify and document improvements.
• S/4HANA Transition Contribution: Provide ECC insights to programme teams.
• Controls, Compliance & Documentation: Maintain accurate design artefacts and governance.

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include:

• Strong understanding of SAP ECC Finance processes (RtR, PtP, OtC, etc.)
• Ability to independently analyse and resolve functional issues
• Comfortable taking day-to-day design ownership
• Understanding of integration behaviour (IDOCs, files, posting logic)
• High attention to detail and financial control awareness
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to document processes and design decisions clearly

What’s in it for you?

Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We’re inclusive, fast paced and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.

Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:

• 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation
• Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more
• Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future
• Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one
• Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal
• Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave
• 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services
• One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you

Everyone’s welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

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